Grilled Cheese for Breakfast...Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted Aug 29th 2005 @ 8:22AM

strawberries and cream stuffed french toast

You can have cereal for dinner, so it’s certainly alright to have grilled cheese for breakfast. Don’t worry, it’s French toast stuffed with cream cheese and fruit, of course. But we certainly wouldn’t be offended if we all sat down to American cheese on Wonder white at 8 am!

Usually, stuffed french toast is made by cutting a slit in the side of extra-thick slices of bread to create a pocket for the filling. However, that small pocket does not maximize the stuffing-ability, and leaves lopsided french toast that is still too much bread and not enough of the delicious stuffing inside. Instead, take two thick slices of egg or challah bread and pull out pieces of the bread without going all the way through, making fairly large divots on one side of each slice. Fill these divots with the stuffing - softened cream cheese that has been sweetened with some sugar and sliced fruit to help with the guilt. Put the slices of bread together like a sandwich. From there, take the regular French toast route of soaking in milk (or cream) and eggs, fry in butter, garnish if have the patience, then eat.

Yes, yes, technically then, it’s not "stuffed" French toast, but a "sandwiched" French toast. But is it really French anyway? Right, I didn't think so.

Filed Under: Grilled Cheese Day, Ingredients, Methods
Tags: breakfast, cheese, dairy, frying, grill

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8-29-2005 @9:23AM Max Wolfe said... I wonder how it would work with mascarpone cheese. Or fromage blanc. I think I'll find out next Sunday!
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8-29-2005 @9:45AM sarah said... it'll be...delicious. and if you want to try filling your french toast with fresh figs and ricotta cheese (not quite as "melty" but just as awesome) and drizzled all over with honey, well, i think that'll be pretty damn good, too ;)
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8-29-2005 @8:40PM amanda said... sounds awsome!
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8-30-2005 @12:50PM Liz said... Martha's, which is by far the best breakfast in the South Bay, often has variations of cream cheese and fruit stuffed french toast. I got strawberry/cream cheese french toast there one morning. It was so good it was ridiculous, but I couldn't finish it because it was so rich, and I still couldn't eat anything for the rest of the day.
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